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f1charlie

Posted 11 August 2012 - 09:41 AM

I used the latest release driver 12.6 which seems to have a later date than the beta. How long should the driver take to load?

That disk utilization graph is useful - a pity it doesn't appear as default!

I am ahead of you with the AV. I tried reinstalling Avast as suggested elsewhere and while it was an improvement there was still a delay in the desktop appearing - so out with Avast and in with Avira. So far, it is not giving me the same irritation!

p5ym0n

Posted 14 August 2012 - 04:53 PM

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Andre (The Great) .
I've been experiencing really long start delays for the last couple of days and hope you can help.
I've pm'ed you the link to the xml export. Unfortunately not able to include a drivers report as this was causing me a boot BSOD loop.
My main boot drive is a Crucial SSD that benchmarks at around 390 megabytes per second read vta SATA 6 gig.
I'm running Windows 7 64 Home Premium which used to boot up in around 30 seconds.

p5ym0n

Posted 15 August 2012 - 12:46 AM

p5ym0n

Posted 15 August 2012 - 04:30 AM

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Just thought I'd reply to say I've resolved the issue.
It was actually a mapped drive connection to a NAS drive that had locked up and required rebooting.
Once the NAS drive was reset, Windows starts up without delay now.
Many thanks for your time though, and although I found this issue without actually trying to decipher the ETL log, I'm still curious if anything in there would of helped track that issue down.

MagicAndre1981

Posted 15 August 2012 - 12:35 PM

Just thought I'd reply to say I've resolved the issue.It was actually a mapped drive connection to a NAS drive that had locked up and required rebooting.Once the NAS drive was reset, Windows starts up without delay now.

p5ym0n

Posted 15 August 2012 - 12:43 PM

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Andre.
You are a star, and many thanks for pointing the location of the drive in the log.
I've been having a good look at the ETL file, along with posts and replies in this useful thread. It is making sense now thanks to your informative posts.

microboom

Posted 16 August 2012 - 09:26 PM

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I gave this a try on Sunday, and got positive results. Went from 2:30 boot times to about 1min, but unfortunately it seems to be back to those over 2 min boots. I've been trying for a while to lower my boot times, and this seems to give the best results. In the past I have tried disconnecting all my USB (excluding my wifi adapter and keyboard adapter), and my second HDD, and my esata external drive. Which didn't do anything to decrease the times.

if you don't need MS SQL Server Express all the time, start the service on demand.

The largest delay is caused by starting all apps at logon. Do you really need all those Logitech tools at startup?

I don't, they must have popped in with Visual Studio, or something else.

How many Logitech tools do I have at startup? I thought I only had one (setpoint). I thought I disabled like my webcam, and what not. I'll disable the entry in MSCONFIG for Logitech anyways.

What other applications are starting up? I try to keep stuff clean in MSCONFIG and services. I'm new to working in the services section so I'm sure there must be stuff I'm missing. But in MSCONFIG I only have:

I feel like one of those audio items can be disabled, but I'm not sure which one. The Windows OS one is for gadgets, JMB I'm pretty sure is for my external esata drive, and I think I need the USB3 for my USB3 ports to work. Dropbox I guess could be disabled, and I could just start it up manually, but I like the convenience of it starting on its own. Since I use it a lot.

But, I'll disable some of the above, and see what happens. Are there any other stuff starting up that I did not mention above?

microboom

Posted 21 August 2012 - 10:24 PM

ElGringo

Posted 26 August 2012 - 07:42 PM

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Hi, i have with success done the trick for speeding up my system boot, but now i have a small question... is the xbootmgr.exe the cause i now have apparently new files in the Windows/Prefetch/Readyboot folder?
Those files have extension *.avail, *.dqpafm, *..dqpafmsg, *.dqpa, *.dqpaf and seems to be refreshed after every bootup. Are they necessary for the OS, or only a logging purpose? They also make extra hard disk activity immediately after the system seems to be operational.
Thanks in advance for any help, and sorry for my bad english...

ElGringo

Posted 27 August 2012 - 04:32 PM

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those files belongs to ReadyBoot, the advanced prefetcher which makes Windows booting faster.

Last week i have formatted and installed in a brand new laptop Windows 7 Home X86 Service Pack 1 (with all Windows Updates), and i see in this folder only five Trace*.fx files, with one Readyboot.etl file. I have also rebooted it so many times, but the new files that i have in my pc don't appear in the laptop. Sounds strange

MagicAndre1981

Posted 28 August 2012 - 03:44 PM

vladv

Posted 11 September 2012 - 04:12 AM

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MagicAndre1981,I tried the boot optimization process you suggest in this guide.But it seems that I get those two error popups after only one reboot , I get the following messages: first one is ” Waiting for prefetcher...” which stays on screen around 3 minutes or so and after that comes this one:” Microsoft Windows Performance Analyser : Gave up waiting for virtual prefetcher after 300 seconds.Could not wait for prefetcher.Couldnt find kernel logger in active logger list.Couldnt find user-mode logger in active logger list” and no more boot from now on (it should be 5 more times , or not ?),please help me with this problem when you have the time!